Second half 19th century, 60 x 90 cm, West Persia, Kurdistan

A large Jaff bag face woven in a horizontal format, purchased at Bernheimer’s in Munich in 1985. The field displays a very rare design variation: the obligatory, nested hooked diamonds – some of them with a wide serrated outline – do not touch each other directly, but stand alone in the earth-brown field. – Uniformly low pile.